Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian announced Sunday that Tehran has rejected direct negotiations with the United States over its nuclear program, responding to a letter from President Donald Trump delivered via Oman.
"We don't avoid talks; it's the (...)
North Korea appears to have sent at least 3,000 more soldiers to Russia early this year, South Korea's military said Thursday, demonstrating Pyongyang's continued support for Moscow's war on Ukraine as world leaders push for an end to the three-year (...)
South Korea's Constitutional Court struck down the impeachment of the country's prime minister Han Duck-soo and restored his powers on Monday, the latest twist in a months-long political saga that started when President Yoon Suk Yeol declared (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reaffirmed his country's steadfast support for Russia's military efforts and strategic objectives, during a meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu in Pyongyang on Friday, according to North (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi women's national football team will take part in the AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers for the first time in its history, marking a major milestone in the Kingdom's ongoing efforts to develop women's football.
The 2026 edition of (...)
North Korea's top diplomat Choe Son-hui met with visiting Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko in Pyongyang, state media reported Sunday, as discussions continue regarding a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.
According to the Korean (...)
China, Iran and Russia called for diplomacy over "pressure and threats" and an end to "all illegal unilateral sanctions" following talks on Tehran's nuclear program on Friday in Beijing, Chinese state media said.
The meeting, attended by the three (...)
Hackers thought to be working for the North Korean regime have successfully cashed out at least $300m (£232m) of their record-breaking $1.5bn crypto heist.
The criminals, known as Lazarus Group, swiped the huge haul of digital tokens in a hack on (...)
North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday, South Korea's military said, hours after Seoul and Washington resumed a major annual military drill known as "Freedom Shield."
North Korea has long viewed the exercise as a (...)
North Korea has stopped tourists from visiting, just weeks after the first Western tourists entered the country for the first time in five years.
North Korea sealed itself off at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, and started to scale (...)
Seven people in South Korea were injured, four of them seriously, after a fighter jet accidentally dropped eight bombs in a civilian district during a live-fire military exercise.
The incident involving the Air Force KF-16 aircraft took place at (...)
Hundreds of North Korean troops were likely transported by sea to Russia to fight in its war against Ukraine, satellite images have revealed, according to a new analysis from a US-based think tank shared exclusively with CNN.
At least two Russian (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron has said a truce between Ukraine and Russia could be agreed in the coming weeks.
He was speaking to Fox News in Washington following talks with Donald Trump at the White House on the third anniversary of Russia's (...)
The US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the UN to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the Trump administration's change of stance on the war.
First, the two countries opposed a European-drafted (...)
BEIJING — The Saudi U-20 national team clinched qualification for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup after a dramatic 1-0 victory over China in the quarterfinals of the AFC U-20 Championship.
With the match heading toward extra time, Ammar Al-Yahibi (...)
The former chief executive of Google is worried artificial intelligence could be used by terrorists or "rogue states" to "harm innocent people."
Eric Schmidt told the BBC: "The real fears that I have are not the ones that most people talk about AI (...)
North Korea on Sunday dismissed the latest proposed US weapons sales to South Korea, asserting that they will not "save" Seoul from its strategic vulnerabilities, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
In a commentary, (...)
South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been charged with insurrection after he attempted to declare martial law in December.
His ill-fated attempt to impose military rule plunged the country into an unprecedented political crisis and he (...)
North Korea conducted a test of a strategic cruise missile, state media KCNA reported Sunday, marking the country's first missile test since the return of Donald Trump to the White House earlier this week.
According to the report, the test was (...)
South Korea's suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol has made his first appearance at his impeachment trial, where he denied ordering the arrest of lawmakers during his attempt to impose martial law.
Parliament voted to impeach Yoon last month, and last (...)
South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in court Saturday to contest a request by investigators to extend his detention and to defend the legitimacy of his controversial martial law decree in December.
The Seoul Western District (...)
President Joe Biden is to remove the US designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism as part of a prisoner release deal, the White House said on Tuesday.
Shortly afterward, Cuba announced it would release 553 prisoners detained for "diverse (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is willing to hand over the two captured North Korean soldiers back to Pyongyang in exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia.
"For those North Korean soldiers who do not wish to return, there (...)
South Korea's suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol will receive his annual pay rise despite his impeachment for briefly placing the country under martial law, the government has said.
Yoon's salary will increase by 3% to 262.6 million won ($179,000; (...)
North Korea has claimed it fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead which "will reliably contain any rivals in the Pacific region".
The launch on Monday — Pyongyang's first in two months — came as US (...)
